https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979 Made with a little mischief en-us 2018-08-29 18:24:40 UTC 2018-10-23 13:32:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276715996 Location, Place , Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Region.]]> 2018-08-30 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276715996 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716095 Globes and Maps]]> 2018-08-30 18:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716095 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716201 Place describes the human and physical characteristics of a location and Region divides the world into manageable units for geographic study.]]> 2018-08-30 18:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716201 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716283 Absolute Location is longitude and latitude and Relative Location are the directions of North, South , East, and South. ]]> 2018-08-30 18:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716283 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716321 Latitude goes up or down like the y-axis and Longitude goes to the right or left like the x-axis.]]> 2018-08-30 18:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716321 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716361 gives the coordinates of a place on the world with straight, right angles, and perpendicular lines. ]]> 2018-08-30 18:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716361 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716398 The four major subsystem: land, water, living things, and air.]]> 2018-08-30 18:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716398 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716576 Rotation is the Earth spining on its axis and Revoltion is the Earth going around the Sun.]]> 2018-08-30 18:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716576 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716637 Weather is a change in the invironment that is affected for short period of time and Climate is a change in the invironment for a long period of time.]]> 2018-08-30 18:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716637 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716866 El Nino is the warm phase of the ocean temperature and La Nina is the cold phase of the ocean temperature.]]> 2018-08-30 18:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716866 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716889 Direct are areas of 
Earth that are warmer than indirect rays and Indirect Rays are light rays that hit Earth from an angle.]]> 2018-08-30 18:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276716889 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717007 Are height levels, especially sea levels.]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717007 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717072 a large community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, forest or tandru]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717072 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717179 Convergent is when two tectonic plates collide usually being forming trenches. Divergent is when two tectonic plates cause sea-floor spreading and cracks in the ocean floor are being filled with magma that rises. Transform is when two plates slide past one another and forms a transform fault.]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717179 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717210 Erosion is being eroded by wind, water, and other natural agents. Weathering is wear away or change in appearance of texture by long exposure to the air. Deposition is when something is deposited or dropped in a another location.]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717210 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717258 A major area in the basin in the Pacific Ocean where earthquake and volcanic eruptions occur.]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717258 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717293 The lithosphere of the Earth divided into small number of plates which float and travel independently over the mantle.]]> 2018-08-30 18:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717293 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717329 A crack in the Earths crust]]> 2018-08-30 18:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717329 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717356 The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the Earths crust into the mantle beneath another plate.]]> 2018-08-30 18:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717356 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717506 Renewable Resources are resources that can be replaced naturally such as air, water, solar energy and biomass. Non Renewable Resources are resources such as oil, coal, or gas that can't be replaced.]]> 2018-08-30 18:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717506 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717633 Adaptation is how humans or animals can adapt to an environment.]]> 2018-08-30 18:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717633 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717661 avoidance of depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.]]> 2018-08-30 18:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717661 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717691 A threat of a natural occurring event will have a negative effect on humans.]]> 2018-08-30 18:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717691 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717840 Seismograph is an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes. Richter Scale is a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of a seismograph oscillations ]]> 2018-08-30 18:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276717840 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718136 Is the spread of an idea or invention]]> 2018-08-30 18:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718136 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718279 Democracy, Monarchy, Communism, Dictatorship]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718279 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718324 The focal point of an idea, belief, or innovation. ]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718324 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718448 Gestures, values, language, norms, sanctions, folkways, and mores]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718448 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718475 Developed are less mortality and birth rates and a lot of per ca-pita per citizen or nation. Developing is more mortality and birth rates and less per ca-pita per citizen or nation. Newly Industrialize is ranked in the middle of developing and first world classifications.]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718475 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718516 Both is what brings people and make them go away and also determines immigration or migration from one land to another]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718516 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718552 statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it.]]> 2018-08-30 18:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718552 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718661 It is calculated by dividing the population by the area.]]> 2018-08-30 19:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718661 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718697 It gives us information on birth and death rates as well as life expectancy.]]> 2018-08-30 19:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718697 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718725 A degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community]]> 2018-08-30 19:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718725 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718767 Cottage Industry is home based and Commercial Industry is based on larger scale (factory).]]> 2018-08-30 19:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718767 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718814 Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary]]> 2018-08-30 19:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/276718814 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171533 emigration is the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad and immigration is the act of coming to live permanently in a foreign country]]> 2018-09-05 19:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171533 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171675 1.a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 2. the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.]]> 2018-09-05 19:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171675 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171721 Urban is in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town. Rural is in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. Suburb is an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.]]> 2018-09-05 19:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171721 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171753 a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.]]> 2018-09-05 19:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278171753 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178248 an official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.]]> 2018-09-05 19:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178248 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178316 Is an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.]]> 2018-09-05 19:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178316 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178443 The failure mechanism for the industrial canal was over-topping of levees and flood walls by the storm surge.]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178443 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178478 Opened up settlement in the western United States, Allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178478 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178532 In 1869, the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads.]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178532 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178576 The immigrants at Ellis Island were treated more equally than those at Angel Island. ... immigrants at Angel Island were not treated fairly. They were detained for long periods of time in filthy living conditions]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178576 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178605 The crop failure was caused by late blight, a disease that destroys leaves, edible roots or tubers, of the potato plant.]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178605 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178641 Rust Belt is a nickname that was earned during the 1970's when there was a decline in factory works that left many factories abandoned and desolate, causing an increase in rust from exposure to the elements. Sun Belt is a region of the US generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest. ]]> 2018-09-05 19:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178641 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178731 A general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.]]> 2018-09-05 19:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278178731 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218757 A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex]]> 2018-09-05 22:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218757 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218784 A member of a largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana formed by descendants of French Canadians , speaking an archaic form of French]]> 2018-09-05 22:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218784 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218934 A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean. 2 A mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage]]> 2018-09-05 22:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218934 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218970 Is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses]]> 2018-09-05 22:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218970 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218989 An agricultural area that provides large amounts of food, especially grain, to other areas.]]> 2018-09-05 22:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278218989 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219020 Relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry.]]> 2018-09-05 22:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219020 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219035 Connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity. ]]> 2018-09-05 22:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219035 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219051 Is the exchange of goods between two nations promoting trade and investment. The two countries will reduce or eliminate tariffs, import quotas, export restraints, and other trade barriers to encourage trade and investment. ]]> 2018-09-05 22:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219051 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219068 The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement among the US, Canada, and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.]]> 2018-09-05 22:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/278219068 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134475 Also called the Peru current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America. An Eastern Boundary current flowing in the direction of the equator.]]> 2018-09-18 19:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134475 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134538 (Especially for a country) almost or entirely surrounded by land; having no coastline or seaport]]> 2018-09-18 19:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134538 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134567 A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape]]> 2018-09-18 19:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134567 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134671 Refers to the pattern of weather in a region whose growth patterns are primarily affected by elevation. ]]> 2018-09-18 19:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134671 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134833 Nahuatl is a member of a group of peoples native to the southern Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs or an Uto-Aztec language of the Nahuatl. Quechua is a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador or the language or group of languages of the Quechua.]]> 2018-09-18 19:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283134833 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150410 Aztec is a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. Incas is a member of the Quechuan peoples in Peru maintaining an empire until the Spanish conquest. Mayan is a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Central America and Mexico. Arawak is a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and Adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana. They were forced out of the Antilles by the more warlike Caribs shortly before Spanish expansion in the Caribbean.  ]]> 2018-09-18 20:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150410 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150452 Mestizo(in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. Mulatto is a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150452 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150499 Hacienda (in Spanish-speaking regions) a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house. Plantations is an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150499 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150623 A factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company.]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150623 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150658 Before the 1910 Mexican Revolution that overthrew Porfirio Diaz, most of the land was owned by a single elite ruling class.]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150658 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150695 PRI is the standard for telecommunication services to enterprises and offices. PAN is all-inclusive, especially in relation to the whole of a continent, racial group, religion, etc. ]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150695 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150739 Was the capital city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300's to the 1500's.]]> 2018-09-18 20:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150739 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150990 Right wing is the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system. Left wing is the liberal, socialist, or radical section of a political party or system]]> 2018-09-18 20:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283150990 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151089 An ancient Inca fortress city in the Andes northwest of Cuzco, ]]> 2018-09-18 20:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151089 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151150 A cowboy of the South America ]]> 2018-09-18 20:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151150 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151201 A ballroom dance originating in Buenos Aires, characterized by marked rhythms and postures and abrupt pauses.]]> 2018-09-18 20:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151201 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151373 Signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setubal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.]]> 2018-09-18 20:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151373 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151419 In Brazil, a Slum or shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country's large cities, especially Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.]]> 2018-09-18 20:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151419 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151459 The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a festival held every year before Lent and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets.]]> 2018-09-18 20:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151459 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151503 Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music. ]]> 2018-09-18 20:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283151503 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185659 Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived.]]> 2018-09-18 22:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185659 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185758 2018-09-18 22:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185758 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185769 2018-09-18 22:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185769 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185792 Petroleos Mexicanos, which translates to Mexican state-owned petroleum company, created in 1938, by nationalization or expropriation of all private, foreign, and domestic oil companies at that time. ]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185792 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185802 FARC is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Peoples army was a guerrilla movement involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict from 1964 to 2017. Paramilitary is (of an unofficial force) organized similarly to a military force.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185802 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185817 Is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 63rd President of Venezuela since 2013 and previously served under President Hugo Chavez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2013 and as Vice President of Venezuela from 2012 to 2013.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185817 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185835 A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185835 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185883 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185883 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185906 Relating to or denoting a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for cleaning forest land of farming.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185906 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185919 Sandinista is a member of a left-wing Nicaraguan political organization, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which came to power in 1979 after overthrowing the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Contra is a member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979-90, and was supported by the US for much of that time.]]> 2018-09-18 22:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185919 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185941 The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.]]> 2018-09-18 22:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185941 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185960 Is a gap in income between one group and another. ]]> 2018-09-18 22:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/283185960 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289360988 Is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.]]> 2018-10-04 19:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289360988 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361041 A long, narrow , deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley.]]> 2018-10-04 19:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361041 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361106 A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by dikes that from an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually operated devices.]]> 2018-10-04 19:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361106 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361416 The major branches of Christianity are Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant.]]> 2018-10-04 19:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361416 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361737 The legacy of Ancient Rome is still felt today in western culture in areas such as government, law, language, architecture, engineering, and religion.]]> 2018-10-04 19:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289361737 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362035 During the height of the Greek civilization , Greek culture spread throughout the Mediterranean. It was then imitated by the Ancient Romes]]> 2018-10-04 19:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362035 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362097 Russian, German, and French]]> 2018-10-04 19:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362097 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362171 Britain led the way in this transformation. By the 1780's the British Industrial Revolution, which had been developing for several decades, began to further accelerate. Manufacturing, business, and the number of wage laborers skyrocketed, starting a trend that would continue into the first half of the 19th century.]]> 2018-10-04 19:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362171 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362241 The Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century paved the way for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. New farming techniques and improved livestock breeding led to amplified food production. This allowed a spike in population and increased health. The new farming techniques also led to an enclosure movement.]]> 2018-10-04 19:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362241 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362312 Iron Curtain is the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War.]]> 2018-10-04 19:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362312 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362379 The term satellite nation was first used to describe certain nations in the Cold War. These were nationsthat were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union. The satellite nations of the Cold War were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.]]> 2018-10-04 19:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362379 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362430 The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the Serbian-Bulgarian border to the Black Sea.]]> 2018-10-04 19:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362430 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362637 Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a partially recognised state and disputed territory in Southeastern Europe. It declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.]]> 2018-10-04 19:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289362637 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616109 NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.]]> 2018-10-05 13:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616109 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616498 World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. One way to remember the FOUR main causes of World War I is to remember the acronym M – A – I – N. (M = Militarism, A = Alliances, I = Imperialism, and N = Nationalism.) MILITARISM was one of the four major causes of the war. It was an “arms race.” Because Britain had a large navy, Germany wanted a large navy too.]]> 2018-10-05 13:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616498 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616584 An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.]]> 2018-10-05 13:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616584 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616764 The European Union is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757 km² and an estimated population of over 513 million.]]> 2018-10-05 13:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289616764 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289617004 Is the currency that is used by several member countries of the European Union.]]> 2018-10-05 13:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/289617004 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570510 The Russian Orthodox Church, alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, since 15 October 2018 not in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The Primate of the ROC is the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.]]> 2018-10-16 19:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570510 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570590 Which groups where involve? The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.]]> 2018-10-16 19:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570590 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570652 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier to a Jewish middle-class family, Marx studied law and Hegelian philosophy.]]> 2018-10-16 19:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570652 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570734 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570734 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570768 Joseph Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570768 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570812 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570812 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570860 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293570860 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571108 (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571108 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571174 Communism a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Capitalism an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.]]> 2018-10-16 19:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571174 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571266 (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.]]> 2018-10-16 19:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571266 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571332 Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in the North Caucasus, situated in the southernmost part of Eastern Europe, and within 100 kilometres of the Caspian Sea. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny.]]> 2018-10-16 19:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571332 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571401 The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.]]> 2018-10-16 19:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/293571401 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633789 The state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage]]> 2018-10-22 18:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633789 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633871 Mesopotamia was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros, Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. Sumerians is a member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia.]]> 2018-10-22 18:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633871 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633937 Aquifer is a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. Oasis is a fertile spot in a desert, where water is found.]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295633937 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634017 Is a type of micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants, either from above the soil surface or buried below the surface.]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634017 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634103 The process of removing salt from the seawater. ]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634103 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634160 Relating to or characterized by the belief that there is only one God]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634160 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634287 Include founder, place of worship, list of rules, holy book, holy places, place of worship,  (Check notes)
https://www.history.com/topics/religion/islam]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634287 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634409 The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634409 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634472 The monotheistic religion of the Jews.]]> 2018-10-22 18:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634472 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634603 Sunni is one of the two main branches of Islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna and in its acceptance of the first three caliphs. Shiite is an adherent of the Shia branch of Islam.]]> 2018-10-22 18:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634603 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634701 Theocracy is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician.]]> 2018-10-22 18:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634701 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634960 Oil Embargo, 1973–1974. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.]]> 2018-10-22 18:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295634960 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635013 PLO the Palestine Liberation Organization Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīniyyah (help. · info)) is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle, with much of its violence aimed at Israeli civilians. HAMAS (Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.]]> 2018-10-22 18:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635013 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635066 Hostile to or prejudiced against Jews.]]> 2018-10-22 18:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635066 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635264 The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Relations between Israel and its neighbours had never fully normalised following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.]]> 2018-10-22 18:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635264 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635334 The Gulf War, code-named Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.]]> 2018-10-22 18:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635334 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635398 A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. US combat troops were withdrawn in 2010.]]> 2018-10-22 18:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635398 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635475 a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt issuing from talks at Camp Davidbetween Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the host, U.S. President Carter: signed in 1979.]]> 2018-10-22 18:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635475 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635648 a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.]]> 2018-10-22 18:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635648 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635722 The Kurds or the Kurdish people comprise an Iranian ethnic group of the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.]]> 2018-10-22 18:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635722 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635781 The Islamic Revolution, or Iranian Revolution, was the 1979 overthrow of Iran's monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was replaced by the cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ... The revolution is notable as an instance where a modernizing democracy was replaced by a theocracy.]]> 2018-10-22 18:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635781 juanjrblue https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635852 The War in Afghanistan followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of 7 October 2001. The U.S. was supported initially by the United Kingdom and Canada and later by a coalition of over 40 countries, including all NATO members. Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, also rendered Usama bin Ladin, was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda. He was a Saudi Arabian until 1994, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. The Taliban or Taleban, who refer to themselves as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, are a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war within that country. Since 2016, the Taliban's leader is Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.]]> 2018-10-22 18:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/juanjrblue/8rnq45jdx979/wish/295635852